Legumes are ecologically and economically important plants that contribute to nutrient
cycling and agricultural sustainability, features tied to their intimate symbiosis with nitrogen …

Rhizobia are soil bacteria that can establish a nitrogen-fixing symbiosis with legume plants.
As horizontally transmitted symbionts, the life cycle of rhizobia includes a free-living phase in …

Sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB) are known to alter methylmercury (MeHg) production in
paddy soil, but the effect of SRB on MeHg dynamics in rhizosphere and rice plants remains …

Symbiotic mutualisms provide critical ecosystem services throughout the world.
Anthropogenic stressors, however, may disrupt mutualistic interactions and impact …

Soil salinization seriously affects soil microbial diversity, and crop yield and quality
worldwide. Microorganisms play a vital role in the process of crop yield and quality …

Legume-rhizobium symbiosis provides a sustainable nitrogen source for agriculture.
Nitrogen fixation efficiency depends on both legume and rhizobium genotypes, but the …

Specialized host–microbe symbioses canonically show greater diversity than expected from
simple models, both at the population level and within individual hosts. To understand how …

Coordinated evolution and mutual adaptation of soybean–rhizobium–soil (SRS) are crucial
for soybean distribution, but the genetic mechanism involved had remained unclear. In a …

Plant hosts can gain significant growth benefits from symbiosis with microbes, but these
benefits could be threatened by divergent fitness interests among partners. Here, we …

Microbiomes: Getting to the root of the rhizobial competition problem in agriculture: Current
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